So spake our general Moth eyes
Of conjugal attraction unreprovd,
And meek surrender, half imbracing leand
On our first Fat [ 495 ]
Naked met he flowing Gold
Of resses
Boty and submissive Charms
Smild er
On Juno smiles, whe Clouds [ 500 ]
t sron lip
iturnd
For envie, yet h jealous leer maligne
Eyd to hus plaind.
Sigeful, sigormenting! two [ 505 ]
Imparadist in one anothers arms
thir fill
Of bliss on bliss, wo ,
fierce desire,
Among our otorments not t, [ 510 ]
Still unfulfilld h pain of longing pines;
Yet let me not forget w I have gaind
From t t seems:
One fatal tree tands of Knowledge calld,
Forbidden to taste: Knowledge forbiddn? [ 515 ]
Suspicious, reasonless. hir Lord
Envie t? can it be sin to know,
Can it be deatand
By Ignorance, is t tate,
th? [ 520 ]
O fair foundation laid wo build
te thir minds
ito knoo reject
Envious commands, invented h designe
to keep t exalt [ 525 ]
Equal o be such,
taste and die: w likelier can ensue?
But first walk round
this Garden, and no corner leave unspid;
A c c [ 530 ]
Some of ain side,
Or in tird, from o draw
furt. Live while ye may,
Yet ill I return,
S pleasures, for long o succeed. [ 535 ]
So saying, ep urnd,
But ion, and began
te, ore hill, ore dale his roam.
Mean Longitude, where heavn
its, tting Sun [ 540 ]
Slo aspect
Against tern Gate of Paradise
Leveld was a Rock
Of Alablaster, pild up to the Clouds,
Conspicuous farr, [ 545 ]
Accessible from Eartrance high;
t overhung
Still as it rose, impossible to climbe.